Fandom at it's prime (part 2)

Or when the other of our writing duo was told she was moving to Florida and threw a fit, until she realized that her new town would be only 30 minutes away from Orlando, that's right, boy band central and the home to both BSB and *NSYNC and was immediately excited to get to Florida.

Yes, we admit, we were pathological to some, but we weren't the only ones. The only downside to our boy band fascination was that as we got older, so did they, and as we approached the time in our lives that we began to not admit any longer to our love, our favorite bands kept going, almost to the point that they shouldn't have and just stopped. We have no problem admitting that we enjoyed both *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys first two albums much more than *NSYNC's 3rd and BSB's 3rd and 4th (really guys, when 4 out of the 5 of you are over 30, the fad is over, it's time to stop).

There were the times when you really felt as though you belonged when gathering around a big screen with you were 10-20 other girls anxiously watching *NSYNC Live From Madison Square Garden or the Millenuim Tour of Backstreet Boys (yea, we weren't fast enough/wealthy enough to get the sold out tickets). With each shot of our favorite singer, squeels of joy resounded throughout the living room of the friend with the biggest television.

With every episode of TRL, re-run of MTV Music Awards, or recorded Making the Video, we couldn't help but fall a little bit more in love with each boy band sighting.

Another admission that we must make, is that we went through a period of role distancing. Yes, we lied. We lied about our obsession and claimed that we never listened to them. But we grew out of this and later on in life, we dusted off our CD cases and felt comfortable with once again rocking out with the boys.

There was no need to look up the lyrics of their songs when you listened to the songs as often as we had. Hence, even now our still remembering them as we sit back and reminisce on the days of our youth when everything was so carefree and the only worry you had was who your competition for the heart of your favorite boy band member.